Butch Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 A friend of mine just picked up this sword and as just sent me this image sorry it’s not that clear Quote
Butch Posted March 3 Author Report Posted March 3 Notice the small stamp under the signature ? Many thanks Gareth Quote
Ray Singer Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 Noshu Seki ju Kojima Katsumasa saku https://www.google.c...sclient=gws-wiz-serp Quote
Scogg Posted March 3 Report Posted March 3 The 関 is a SEKI stamp. Which is an inspection mark found on some WW2 swords. It indicates that the sword was not made with traditional methods Cheers, -Sam Quote
Bruce Pennington Posted March 4 Report Posted March 4 Amazing, @Jimny posted a gunto by the exact same smith, today: The stamp was used by the Seki Cutlery Manufacturers Association on inspected/approved showato. It was a civilian organization doing the inspections at the request of area shops and forges to maintain quality blades. "KATSUMASA (勝正), Shōwa (昭和, 1926-1989), Gifu – “Katsumasa” (勝正), real name Kojima Shichi´emon (小島七右衛門), born October 20th 1892, he studied under Kaneyoshi (兼吉), worked as a guntō smith and died September 22nd 1947" Likely no date on the other side, with that large Seki stamp, but most of those were made in 1942, plus or minus a year. 3 Quote
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